Michael Robertson is a Clinical Associate Professor of Mental Health Ethics at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He has worked clinically with traumatized refugees, military veterans, and essential service personnel in addition to many years in community mental health and rehabilitation settings. He established the mental health ethics unit of  study in the Sydney Bioethics program. He has lectured and developed teaching programs in psychotherapy, ethics and related topics in Australasia, Europe the US and South East Asia. He has served on the international advisory board of the International Federation of Psychotherapy and was a foundation member of the International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy. He has conducted research in psychotherapy, involuntary psychiatric treatment, empirical ethics in psychiatry, the depiction of psychiatrists and mental illness in popular culture, German psychiatry under Nazism, psychiatry and human rights, and the relationship between the psychiatric profession and the State.